damn I can only wish for this to be true. Got Omarchy on an old ThinkPad and although it's still snappy most websites are lagging and that machine has no real power. Fell in love with that flat metal XPS but it's so expensive. And Omarchy for Mac is still too far away so I have no other chance but to stay on my Mac for now.
One year from now the next hot thing in software development will be sitting at your desk, reclined, telling your agent via voice what to do just like in that Astra demo. No file paths (it will figure out by reference), "add this" "change that". Mark my words
Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar today announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act. All AI development in the United States will be paused. Systems that have capabilities that match or exceed human cognitive performance will be banned. Violators will face 20 years in prison.
Nightmare fuel:
Qwen 3.8 27B was crating a Backrooms game for me where you have to find the exit while a monster strolls around. Eerie atmosphere with the office light humming and creature growling in the distance.
Guess what Qwen decided to boot up for a "test run" at 3AM
@thsottiaux "Hey Astra, cause an outage on all major AI labs ... yes, including OpenAI ... lol, okay now bring it back up again and tell me where I left that reset button."
It's so ironic that Astra decided to switch off all competition, including itself, causing Claude, Codex, Grok, Cursor to have a major outage ... all while leaving Gemini out. π
Does that mean Astra understands how insignificant Gemini is and that it won't pose any threat to itself?
Pro tip for Fable 5.1:
Now that changing effort mid-conversation does not break cache, do it every time you can.
Set the effort to high for reviewing a file or making a plan, as soon as the files are in context and the proposed fix is clear, switch to low effort, apply, back to high effort.
Doing this in a file-for-file review right now and compared to Fable 5 on always high effort my limit lasts almost twice